
%0 Journal Article
%A Tominaga, H 
%A Tominaga, N 
%A Williams, WD 
%T Concentrations of some inorganic plant nutrients in saline lakes on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
%J Marine and Freshwater Research
%D 1987/04/01
%V 38
%N 2
%P 301-305
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9870301
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MF9870301 
%X The concentrations of major ions (Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Cl-, SO42- and HCO3- + CO32-) and minor ions (NO2, NO3-, NH4 and PO43-) were determined in 10 saline and mostly ephemeral lakes on the Yorke Peninsula, S.A., over a range of salinity (27-250 g/l). The major ion dominances were similar to those of saline lakes elsewhere in southern Australia: Na+> Mg2+ > Ca2+ > K+ : Cl- > SO42- > HCO3- + CO32-. Concentration ranges of minor ions were wide; individual concentrations of ions were not correlated with salinity, but in the least-saline lakes (salinity < 150 g/l) phosphorus appears to be the most likely limiting plant nutrient, whereas in the more saline lakes (>150 g/l) nitrogen appears to be so. 
